thesnailmagazine: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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Ron Francis via LinkedIn
10:16 AM (10 hours ago)
Ron Francis
Publisher & Editor at thesnailmagazine
I am in the process of trying to set up and run a print-only periodical - thesnailmagazine - which will publish exclusively longform, narrative, or 'creative nonfiction'. I am keeping a blog at thesnail.jigsy.com recording my successes and failures. Each issue of the magazine will be in slightly larger than tabloid form - fifty-six or so pages [more if possible] each containing some 1,000 words. As far as new features are concerned, I want to avoid memoir and autobiography, as well as stories about parents and grandparents and other family members. I am looking for features that take the writers and the readers out of their comfort zones , profiles of interesting characters or normal characters who have done something interesting or extraordinary, or have experienced things that might have been expected to alter them. Events that require evaluation and can be done so in such a way that compels the reader to read [as it should have compelled the writer to write].
I am not looking for 'universal truths'.
I am not looking for pieces written predominantly in the first person. I don't mind the writer appearing in the piece, but if he or she does then it should be as a member of the chorus rather than a solo voice.
Payment: $20 per printed page.
Rights: The right to publish once in periodical form together with an option to anthologize the feature - which will attract extra payment.
Format: Please send your completed piece within the body of an email - don't bother too much about formatting the piece to; .
Alternatively, send it as a Word attachment to the same address. At the top of your piece, under the title and byline, state the word-count. I would prefer pieces in the 3,000 to 75,000 range but am prepared to accept longer pieces if they are exceptional.
A brief - 100 word - bio would be appreciated.
I will let you know as soon as possible whether I consider your piece suitable for thesnailmagazine.
If you have any contacts or friends who are working on pieces at the moment, or intend doing so in the future, please pass on this announcement. I hope to have thesnailmagazine up and running during the final quarter of the year.
Thanks for reading this
Ron Francis
Publisher and Editor
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